Physics of Life Reviews is an international journal appearing quarterly, that publishes review articles on physics of living systems, complex phenomena in biological systems, and related fields of artificial life, robotics, mathematical bio-semiotics, and artificial intelligent systems. This journal is a unifying force, going across the barriers between disciplines, addressing all living systems from molecules to populations and from genetics to mind and artificial systems modeling these phenomena. The journal invites reviews from actively working researchers, which are broad in scope, critical, accessible to our wide readership and addresses sometimes controversial accounts of recent progress and problems.
Physics of Life Reviews intends to keep the active researcher abreast of developments on a wide range of topics by publishing timely reviews, which are more than mere literature surveys but normally less than a full monograph. Although most of the reviews will be of a specialist nature, each review should contain enough introductory material to make the main points intelligible to a non-specialist and to inspire and facilitate interdisciplinary research. "Physics" in the journal name refers to the methodology unifying all areas of physics: (1) elucidating fundamental principles, (2) developing a mathematical model, (3) making experimentally verifiable predictions. We seek reviews aspiring to this universal paradigm. 
The reviews should address in a clear way the most important conceptual issues in a field, review existing theories and methods with their achievements and drawbacks or difficulties versus the issues, unsolved problems addressed by a new theory, method, or approach, and why a significant progress is achieved or expected. Future research directions, remaining unsolved problems, and experimental confirmations or controversies should also be addressed.

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Editor-in-Chief
L. Perlovsky
Dept. of Psychology, Northeastern University (NU), 125 Nightingale Hall - 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, MA 02115, USA Email L. Perlovsky
Editorial Board
J.F. Fontanari
Inst. de Fisica de Sao Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, SP, BrazilEmail J.F. Fontanari
M. Frank-Kamenetskii
Ctr. for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, 36 Cummington Street, Boston, Massachusetts, MA 02215, USA Email M. Frank-Kamenetskii
T. Fukuda
Dept. of Micro System Engin., Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Aichi, 464-8603, Nagoya, Japan Email T. Fukuda
V.M. Kenkre
Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, University of New Mexico, 800 Yale Boulevard NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, NM 87131, USA Email V.M. Kenkre
B.G. Konopelchenko
Dipart. di Fisica, Università di Lecce, Via Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italy Email B.G. Konopelchenko
E. Shakhnovich
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MA 02138, USA Email E. Shakhnovich
T. Tan
Chinese Academy of Science, Inst. of Automation, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, 95 Zhong Guan Cun East Road, 100190, Beijing, China Email T. Tan
V. Zakharov
Landau Institute of Theoretial Physics, Kosygina street 2, 117 960, Moscow, Russian Federation Email V. Zakharov
E. di Mauro
Dipart. di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Roma, Italy Email E. di Mauro
Honorary Editor
A. Meystel†
I. Prigogine†
L.A. Zadeh†